Cloth-folding device.



'Nq. 740,581 PATENTED OCT. 6,1903.

. Ai MAXSON.

' CLOTH FOLDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28, 1903.

H0 MODEL.

INVENTOR WITNESSES n: Momma FE'FKR'S co. PMOYD-LYTNO,WASHINGYON u. 2.

Patented October 6, 1903.

PATE T OFFICE.

AMELIA MAXSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTH-FOLDING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,581, dated October 6, 1903.

Application filed May 28, 1903.

Serial No. 159,169. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern? Be it known that I, AMELIA MAXSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cloth-Folding Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in vice of this kind which will be simple in construction, inexpensive, eflicient, and well adapted to the use for which it is designed.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrange ment of parts, as will be more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure I is a plan view of the folder, showing the same applied to a strip of cloth. Fig.2 is a similar view of another form of folder. Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken on the plane indicated by the line a a. of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a plan View of the blank from which the folder is formed.

Referring more particularly to the ings, 1 denotes the body of the device, which is formed from a single piece of sheet metal or any suitable material, turned or folded upon itself at one side to form spaces or channels 2 and 3. At the opposite side of, the piece the edge 4 of the metal is folded or turned over onto the first-mentioned folds, forming an open-sided space 5 between said folds and the edge t.

The plate or blank from which the folder is formed is substantially in the shape of a truncated triangle, the folds in the metal which form the spaces 2 and 3 being parallel with one edge of the blank, while'the fold forming the space 5 is parallel with the opdraw-f posite edge, and asthese edges converge in one direction the folded or completed device will be wider at one end than at the other, as shown.

On the wide end of the plate or blank are formed a series of irregular scallops 6, one of which whenthe blank is folded will come at the end of each of the folds, these escalloped ends serving to form recesses 7, which guide and direct the edges of the material into the proper spaces or passages through which the material is to pass to make the proper folds in the same, the' scallops also tending to keep the material smooth and straight.

The for-m of the folder as shown in Fig. 2 is simply for turning over the edges of the material and making a plain fold, while the form shown in Fig. l, in which the upper edge of the smaller end of the folder is bent over upon itself, is to make what might be termed a fdouble fold, as shown; but'it will be obvious that by making other turns or folds in the metal various other styles'of folded material may be formed. The folders may also be constructed in various sizes and when prepared for sale will be put up in sets consisting of the different sizes and styles.

' The arrangement of the folded-over edge 4 is-such that should the strips of material be too wide for the folder the surplus material will slip out of the passage 5, one side of this passage being open for this purpose, and consequently the material will come out of the end of the folder straight and not wrinkled, as would be the case should the passage 4 be closed along both sides.

As the material leaves the folder it may be creased or pressed with a flat-iron or tacked or basted with a needle and thread without ironing, as in this construction of folder the material is sufficiently creased to retain its folded shape while being sewed.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without'requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form,proportion,and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the princigitudinal recesses at one end coincident with ple or sacrificing any of the advantages of the said passages. this invention. In testimony whereof I have signed my Having thus fully described my invention, name to this specification in the presence of 5 what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters two subscribing witnesses.

Patent is A cloth-folder comprising a body folded ,to AMELIA O form longitudinal passages that extend from Witnesses: end to end thereof, each of said passages be- JOHN RETZLOFE,

[0 ing open on one side, said body having lon- DAVID SERFASS. 

